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OP In a newsgroup I frequent, someone uses this word in his signature line. Since I'm sure he wants someone to take the bait, I don't wish to. However, Googling it drawsa blank. Has anybody ever come across this word?
Most I can make out of it is the bibe part might be related to the Latin bibere. Still doesn't make much sense to me; two-fisted drinkers?
I found wome odd-ball sites apparently about motorcycles referring to " 'bentsts" and recumbents vs uprights.But I couldn't find anything about frogs riding them.
OP >Most I can make out of it is the bibe part might be related to the Latin bibere. Still doesn't make much sense to me; two-fisted drinkers?
The guy's German, so that may make sense - a stein in each hand, vielleicht.
Nunc est bibendum: Now it is time to drink .
Nunc est bibendum
I'll drink to that!
Hearkens back to Mencken's ombibulous....which he coined to mean "I drink everything" [type of alcoholic beverage, that is]. He used to say, "I'm an ombibulous drinker." [there's an old thread on this here if anyone wants to search it] So...
That coupled with ambi-, and bibere seem to indicate an attempt to quantify and diversify the practice of something...a two-fisted dentist!?
ambi-bib-entists...hmmm, entists...a two-fisted lover of Ents! A LOTR allusion! OR, a two-fisted drinker of Ent liqueur (distilled from their essence, not made by the tree-creatures)
'N mebbe you're right, AnnaS, mebbe the snow is getting to me! The weather kind, that is! A nice shot of Ent whiskey, anyone?
Next item on the menu...Gollumburgers...no,no,no...I like Gollum too much...Orcburgers more like it, I think!
Dear WO'N: I'm surprised that some of Menken's many victims did not suggest he also
imbibed venom or even less tasty things.
an ambibibentist is one with a talent for directing a stream of tobacco juice, after chewing, into a spitoon from a long ways away.
Back in the days of silent movies, there was a bit part actor whose trademark was hitting the
spitoon with a jet so massive the spitoon wobbled violently. Damned if I can remember his
name.
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